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Agentic AI, Harness Engineering and Organisational Architecture
Harness engineering matters, but the organisational architecture that sits above agents, models, and harnesses remains the most important source of…
 • Lee Bryant
Open Models, Technology Diffusion & the Shift from Renting to Owning AI
Kimi K3 shows open models can compete with the best, and might provide a better foundation for enterprises as they shift from renting to owning their AI…
 • Lee Bryant
The Token Apocalypse & Agentic Ecosystem Design
How can simple agents and small models can create a more reliable form of agentic intelligence than continued reliance on frontier models for everything
 • Lee Bryant
Context, Codification & Cognitive Capabilities
Links and musings on the challenge of building continuous learning engines for agentic AI in the enterprise
 • Lee Bryant
Operational Intelligence in Shared Agent Networks
How can enterprises build reusable operational intelligence to support shared agents without recreating the failures of centralisation?
 • Cerys Hearsey
Don't Outsource Agentic Capability Design
Why operational leaders are an under-used design resource in enterprise AI
 • Lee Bryant
How AI Can Make Organisational Capabilities More Navigable
Why AI may finally make organisational capabilities easier to access.
 • Cerys Hearsey
Agents are Easy; the Agentic Enterprise is Not
Could personal agents with minimal data integration provide a learning path towards more fully-functional agentic AI? And do we need frontier models for…
 • Lee Bryant
Embrace the Human to Overcome the AI Capability Absorption Gap
Why we need more focus on learning, thinking and knowledge engineering if we are to make progress with AI-enabled organisational transformation
 • Lee Bryant
Agents at the Ready? Yes and No...
Mythos, memex and management - how the various layers of agentic AI development are moving at different speeds and why we need to bring them together
 • Lee Bryant
The Autonomous Project Manager
What happens when coordination becomes a system, not a role
 • Cerys Hearsey
Agents of Progress or Agents of Chaos?
The delta between personal and enterprise agentic AI development is worrying, but perhaps combining the two offers a way to help overcome their…
 • Lee Bryant
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